***
The man was having a hard time.
The reason was tardiness.
“No, I mean! I saw some weird capable people, you see.”
As the man explained why he was late, the boss sitting across from him sighed and pressed his forehead as if he was tired.
“…haa.”
“They looked like foreigners, but there was something strange about them…”
“No, you… If you want to make an excuse for being late, you have to come up with a better excuse.”
Seeing the gibberish and the appearance of his subordinate holding his flushed cheeks, the boss, who was sitting at the top of the table, sighed again after judging that he was late because of women’s issues.
“Whether it’s women’s issues or capable issues! You’re late, you’re still late… because you’re late, write me a written apology.”
“Yes? Then…”
“I’ll let you off once this time. Write it down now.”
Perhaps it was quite unfair, his subordinate’s eyes appealed desperately for reconsideration… But the boss only waved his palm coldly, as if to tell him to stop.
“…haa.”
As his subordinate, who sighed, left his room, the boss, who was staring blankly at the documents on the desk, muttered quietly.
“Capable person…”
Soon, the boss pulled out his cell phone and started calling somewhere.
*****
At Riley’s request for a place to stay, Mi-rae, a young girl who brought a bouquet to the memorial, was guiding Riley, Sera, and Nara to her house.
“I thought mister was dead.”
“This and that happened.”
Riley, who didn’t tell the truth, was following her, explaining only that complicated circumstances were intertwined.
“Mister is alive… I can’t tell this to others, right?”
When Mi-rae, who was walking at the forefront, asked the question, Riley, who was wearing a hood, nodded.
“If the dead were known to be alive, people would be confused… I would be like that too.”
Especially if Helena found out, he couldn’t use the things like the ‘surprise’ and ‘part’ operation that he had already talked about with Abyss…
Now he had to hide his identity.
“By the way, you managed to recognize me.”
“The atmosphere was just like mister.”
“…yeah.”
Given the timing of this place, Riley, who cut her friends to salvation around last year, stopped trying to ask the question, ‘Don’t you hate me?’
“What a relief. Mister came back alive because you see, now the flowers to bring to the memorial were really running out.”
Because if she hated him, she wouldn’t have put that pretty bouquet on the memorial.
“I think there’s a lot I’d like to ask you about the situation here since then… is it okay?”
“Yes, I don’t mind, but…”
Mi-rae, who nodded at Riley’s question, looked back at Sera and Nara, who were walking behind her, and continued.
“Are they two good people?”
“Yeah. They’re foreigners, so you won’t understand their words, but they’re good guys. I’ll explain it to you later.”
A foreigner, in other words, an outsider. At the time when the Demon King was in full swing, it was a word used to refer to people with different languages ??and cultures that they encountered in the process of merging cities that had been divided into several parts.
“Have you been out of town all this time?”
“Well, you can say that.”
Meanwhile…
Sera and Nara, who were looking at Riley and Mi-rae, who were having a harmonious conversation, were tilting their heads because they had no idea what they were talking about.
“What are they talking about?”
“A depressing, serious story… no, it doesn’t seem to be?”
Unlike Riley, the two felt awkward because they couldn’t communicate with Mi-rae. Instead of hearing the story, they began to focus on staring at Mi-rae.
“Maybe looking at her atmosphere, I guess?”
“She looks like to know young master, right?”
Riley slowly turned his head and began to stare at Sera and Nara, who were talking about Mi-rae in whispers.
“Even if you don’t whisper like that, I’ll tell you everything in a little while, so just follow quietly.”